Rock Cycle Journey Activity

5/09 UPDATE: I finally got the chance to test out this game last week and it works beautifully! Of note, the sediment and sedimentary lines get long (all dice, except magma, lead to sediment – and sediment only leads to sedimentary) so leave some extra space by those two dice. Some great follow-up questions include: Are all the dice the same? Why is there an animal station in a rock cycle game? Does anyone have many of the same color beads in a row – do rocks change fast or slow?

After going through the ProjectWet training a couple weeks ago I was inspired to make a rock cycle version of the popular Incredible Journey activity.

The rock cycle version has six dice: Igneous, Metamorphic, Sedimentary, Sediment, Magma, and Animal. Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedimentary are, of course, the the three types of rocks. Sediment and Magma are transition types – sediment leads to sedimentary and magma leads to igneous. The animal die was included to demonstrate that life interacts with rocks, a snail was chosen because snail-like shells can frequently be seen fossilized in local sedimentary rocks.

Here a link to a pdf of this Rock Cycle activity with the instructions and graphics. If you use it let me know what you think!